Vantaggi
Stantec offers the market a broad base of services, solid reach across North America and some really smart, talented people work there. The salary and benefits are good. For anyone wanting a job with limited growth it's fine.
Svantaggi
The culture and lack of leadership is terrible. Their growth model is through acquisition which means they don't invest in supporting growth any other way. Creating innovation, improving processes, employee engagement, client engagement is not something they really care about although there is a lot of communication about these issues. They have a creativity and innovation initiative but even the decision making around that is so political that it's hard to sustain employees interest in creating innovation as the company won't sustain ongoing initiatives. Because of the growth through acquisition, employees / managers really struggle to get moved around and promoted to senior level roles which means they primarily focus on politics instead of business improvement or business at hand. They are all controlled by the engineering leadership in Western Canada-all men- otherwise new roles go to the newly acquired company's leaders. I can't recommend it for anyone interested in being a top performer, market leader or creative innovator.